Cool?

After many months of looking forward to buying a mac, the iMrs. and i finally made it over to the Apple store last night to buy our mac laptop. i asked the isales person what he would suggest that we buy. (His name, interestingly, was "Haleem" as opposed to the traditional "Halim." We can only surmise the 'i' was necessary elsewhere in the store.)

Haleem was very helpful, especially in the liberal application of the adjective "cool." We quickly learned what was cool about dozens of features on the laptop, the service plan, an external mouse, etc. We were convinced and purchased a mac book.

Later that evening, the iMrs. opened up the box and set to getting our new friend up and running. So here's the report:
The packaging: Cool (how did they manage to make the styrofoam seem cool?)
The sleek white case: Cool.
The magnetic power cord: Very cool (again, how did they manage to make a power cord seem cool?)
The soothing, yet hip music intro: Very cool. (setup is usually so painful).
The tailored software setup: Cool (once they knew we were new to macs, the setup questions adapted.)
The screen that fritzed and then stopped working after 4 1/2 minutes: Not cool.

i have to admit, though, the whole process was pretty easy. Even in the end, there weren't any complicated error messages about memory write errors at sector 2E4f89h. Not even the blue screen of death. It just stopped working, plain and simple. Cool.